For the past 15 years I have worked as a Director/Camerman for documentaries on British TV. In the early 1990s I slid out of the MA course at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in Manchester and was handed a VX1000 camera. It was a camera that changed the world of filmmaking and changed my life. Finally I had a reason to stop signing on. Since then I have directed more than 35 programmes for broadcast TV. These days, I usually work as a producer/director/camera or as a director/camera in both SD or more recently HD.
I have had some crazy experiences over the past 15 years; having survived a plane crash in Brazil looking for the largest freshwater fish in the world. I have tracked down the story behind the Bravo 2 Zero tales of the SAS in Saddam’s Iraq, and filmed a wannabe shaman going mad on frog venom and Ayahuasca in the Peruvian jungle.
More recently I directed two programmes in the award winning series, Tribe for BBC2 about the Layap of Bhutan and the Penan of Borneo. I also directed the award winning series, Meet the Natives for Channel 4 about the adventures of a group of south pacific islanders and their travels in the strange and exotic land called England.
In 2009 I filmed and directed the highly acclaimed series; Welcome to Lagos. In 2010 I worked with Bruce Parry on the BBC2 series, Arctic and in 2011 I directed and shot Street Dance for Channel 4 for their Street Season.
For more information on my work, please see the filmography page, or dip into some of the movie clips.